A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.
People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.
The most straight seems curved.
Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.